Lament vs Jovial - What's the difference?
lament | jovial |
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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(obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
(obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
(astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
Merry; cheerful and good-humored.
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As a noun lament
is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.As a verb lament
is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.As an adjective jovial is
(obsolete) pertaining to jove or zeus; jovian.lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial —thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
